Non-Cubers say the darndest things!

[apoplectic]

The one I get the most is "Wow, you must have way too much time on your hands".

 

[Dacuba]

My brother and his new gf just heard me cubing. She was curious so they decided to knock on the door, so she can see it.

gf: "hey blabla, so what are you doing?"
me "Uhm I solve magic cubes as fast as I can, that's my hobby."
gf: "so you don't listen to music or anything?"

I first thought she means why I am not listening to music during solving the puzzle, and I explained her that you have to conentrate to be fast.
Now I've realised that she actually meant that I never listen to music etc. cause I'm obv a freak

 

[Edward]

*Take cube apart*
OMG U BROKE IT

 

[cubersmith]

My geography teacher saw me cubing in class, and instead of telling me to put it away, she started talking to me about it. I had a 2x2 and she said:

"Oh you can only do the 4x4? I can do the 9x9"

At the time, a 9x9 was non-existent. So I said, "they don't exist."

It turns out she meant she could do a 3x3 because there was 9 stickers on each side.

Non cubers say the darndest things

 

[retep]

My geography teacher saw me cubing in class, and instead of telling me to put it away, she started talking to me about it. I had a 2x2 and she said:

"Oh you can only do the 4x4? I can do the 9x9"

At the time, a 9x9 was non-existent. So I said, "they don't exist."

It turns out she meant she could do a 3x3 because there was 9 stickers on each side.

Non cubers say the darndest things

Lol good thing she wasn't a math teacher

 

[storebought]

" can I play with your toy"

" ahhhh! Why would you mess it up like that

Me doing r u r' u' " omg u sooo fast"

 

[Tristan97tfj]

I just read all 308 ages, it was really amazing lol, and my brother recently said to me,
brother:why dont you get a life
Me:I have a life, this is what I enjoy doing
Brother: Why dont you just play angry birds or something, at least I can undersand that.
Me: -_______________-

 

[Noahaha]

Bump.

I do a lot of blindsolves in front of people to force myself to be accurate and not ragequit during memo. I always get "how do you know when you're done?"

I've shown a few people a video of me doing a blindsolve at Yale, and they've all asked me how long I get to look at the cube, even though they could clearly see that the timer was going during inspection.

 

[Tristan97tfj]

http://www.smashingames.com/games/rubikscube.html
FUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!! LOL. Look at the color configoration (Facepalm)

 

[Mike Hughey]

http://www.smashingames.com/games/rubikscube.html
FUUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!! LOL. Look at the color configoration (Facepalm)

Awesome! Finally a game with the correct color configuration!!!

Edit: I love what happens when you solve it!

 

[applemobile]

I really couldn't care less if non-cubers use the incorrect terminology. In fact, my girlfriend cubes, and she refers to 'sune' as fishy, 'F' turns as Face, 'f' turns as double face, 'F2l' as the bottom bit, 'OLL' as the yellow side, and 'PLL' as finishing move. And it causes no problems at all.
The one thing non cubers do that mega irritates me, is when they scramble it but they only do say a 6 move scramble. So instead of solving it normally, i try to solve it intuitively, and completely mess it. Doubling my times.

 

[Cheese11]

I really couldn't care less if non-cubers use the incorrect terminology. In fact, my girlfriend cubes, and she refers to 'sune' as fishy, 'F' turns as Face, 'f' turns as double face, 'F2l' as the bottom bit, 'OLL' as the yellow side, and 'PLL' as finishing move. And it causes no problems at all.

I wouldn't have a problem with this either. If it helps her remember the steps, then it's fine with me.

 

[Applejuice]

*Takes 2x2 out of bag*
People: "Oh, that's so easy, even I can do that." *Hours later* not even 1 face done

 

[ketchuphater999]

*Takes 2x2 out of bag*
People: "Oh, that's so easy, even I can do that." *Hours later* not even 1 face done

one of my friends took my 2x2 and was like "oh doesnt that cube take like 10 hours to solve I bet u can't solve it"

 

[Georgeanderre]

I really couldn't care less if non-cubers use the incorrect terminology. In fact, my girlfriend cubes, and she refers to 'sune' as fishy.

That's how I'm teaching my friends at College, it makes it easier for them to recognise and remember in the long term... even I still refer to it as fishy and I've been cubing for almost 3 years

The one thing that had started to annoy me over the last 6 months is when I solve a cube fast and then when I hand it to someone else to scramble they attempt to turn it fast and end up making it explode... Even more annoying when it's my 4x4 which pops when I turn it, let alone a non cuber pretending to be me :fp sort of fun saying "I told you so" when it does happen though... and means they go away for a few minutes whilst I re-assemble whatever just exploded

or I get the old "he just remembers how he scrambles and undoes it" line. Which to be honest is probably more skill than actually solving it normally? Especially given the amount of scrambling I do to it these days, a good 15 seconds... with some spins to randomise which faces I am spamming

It's not so bad any more now though because when I hand a cube over to a non-cuber and say "DON'T turn it to harshly because it WILL explode" I have a few friends that say it with me because they have had it happen to their cubes

 

[JyH]

 

[ketchuphater999]

I really couldn't care less if non-cubers use the incorrect terminology. In fact, my girlfriend cubes, and she refers to 'sune' as fishy, 'F' turns as Face, 'f' turns as double face, 'F2l' as the bottom bit, 'OLL' as the yellow side, and 'PLL' as finishing move. And it causes no problems at all.

I wouldn't have a problem with this either. If it helps her remember the steps, then it's fine with me.

Totally agree. I call the 25th alg on Bob Burtons CFOP oll lags page "thing" or "whatever it is".
I got into this habit when I started learning oll and I recited the names that I use for the algs and
I could never remember the name for it.

 

[Geezer]

Noncuber: How do you do it?
Me: It starts with a cross, usually white..
Noncuber: you lost me.

 

[soccerdude2]

The one thing that had started to annoy me over the last 6 months is when I solve a cube fast and then when I hand it to someone else to scramble they attempt to turn it fast and end up making it explode...

That has happened to me a lot as well, except even when they turn the cube remarkably slow they still make it pop!

I remember lots of funny things non-cubers said:

"I'm amazing at scrambling the Rubik's cube!"

"My cube at home is so scrambled it is IMPOSSIBLE to solve!"

"I bet I can solve it faster than the world record" *turns one side*

--

"Ready, set go!" *turns side back*

"LESS THAN ONE SECOND!"

*looking at my 4x4* "Doe that have like six cubes on each side?"

"Teach me how to solve it!"

 

[PandaBeaarAmy]

i've seen people who knew how to solve the 3x3 try to turn the square-1 on the side with no cuts...
had this really annoying kid come up to me at school one day and he asked me how to solve the 3x3.
guy: How do you do that?
Me: Magic?
guy: ok then, what do you do to solve the cube?
Me: turn it until its solved.
went on for a while like that, until he went onto another cuber which answered with the same things
was fun screwing with that guy

was solving a 2x2 with one hand, held my 3x3 in the other because i didnt have time to put it in my bag, and i heard someone behind me say "oh my god she's solving two rubik's cubes at the same time!"